Seminars
January 2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
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CMI Seminar
Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness
Ruta Mehta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?
Dargan Frierson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Traffic Networks as Mixed Monotone Systems: Dynamical Properties and Finite State Abstraction"
Sam Coogan,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, January 9th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The Interplay Between Structure of Finite Graphs and Maximal Averages on Their Cartesian Powers
Jordan Greenblatt,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Translating Landau-Rumer Processes to an Ultrasonic Stereo for the Hard of Hearing
Seth Putterman,
Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics
Aaron Weinstein,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics, Caltech,
Saturday, January 10th, 2015
2:00pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural Signals for Memory and Space in the Primate Medial Temporal Lobe
Elizabeth Buffalo,
Associate Professor,
Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations
Allison Wing,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
4:00pm
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MedE Distinguished Speaker
Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Beating Optical Diffusion and Diffraction
Lihong Wang,
Ph.D., Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor,
Optical Imaging Lab, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Washington University in St. Louis,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Mark Adler,
Project Manager,
JPL,
Ian Clark,
Principal Investigator,
Friday, January 16th, 2015
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rational Mechanics of Viral Shells: Is Continuum Theory a Stretch?
William S. Klug,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Mark Adler,
Project Manager,
JPL,
Ian Clark,
Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Sunday, January 18th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 19th, 2015
8:00am
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Multicore in Space, NASA and AFRL Invest in the Future of Flight Computing
Richard Doyle,
Program Manager, Information and Data Science,
Project Manager, High Performance Spaceflight Computing,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.
Kenneth H. Nealson,
Wrigley Professor of Environmental Science,
University of Southern California,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Interaction as Manipulation
Anca Dragan,
The Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Traffic Engineering: From Distributed Static Optimization to Centralized Transient Control
A. Kevin Tang,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
Photosensitization of Single Crystal Semiconductors: From Photography to Multiple Excitons
Bruce Parkinson,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanomembranes and Soft Fabrication Methods for High Performance, Low Cost Energy Technologies
Ralph Nuzzo,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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MedE Special Speaker
Emerging Trends in Heart Valve Engineering and its Translation to Clinical Medicine
Arash Kheradvar,
M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, Assoc. Professor,
Biomedical Engineering and Medicine,
University of California, Irvine,
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
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GALCIT Colloquium
A novel application of flame hole dynamics to consistent turbulent nonpremixed combustion modeling
Carlos Pantano,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superfluid Optomechanics
Laura DeLorenzo,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips
Rahul Sarpeshkar,
Professor,
RLE,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Predictive Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Fluctuations in Signal-Activated Gene Regulation
Professor Brian Munsky,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering,
Colorado State University,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Visualizing catalytic reactions and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale resolution
Jennifer Dionne,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar - piyush2
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Spectrum Scarcity and Optical Wireless Communications
Mohamed-Slim Alouini,
Professor,
Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry
Chris Kempes,
Visiting Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems,
Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
The Biology Century
Alexander Kamb,
Senior Vice President,
Research,
Amgen Inc.,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlocal multiphysics for heterogeneous materials, anomalous diffusion, and hydraulic fracturing
John T. Foster,
Assistant Professor,
Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Department ,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
THE SUNSHOT OPPORTUNITY: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar
Minh Le,
Director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office,
US Department of Energy ,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4
Morten Ring Eskildsen,
Department of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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